Link for the exhibition text and documentation: https://kubaparis.com/submission/501448

Video, 2025

Collaboration with Helen Brecht
Text and Reading: Helen Brecht
Translation from German to Turkish: Dilek Erbaş
Video Editing: Melih Kaymaz

The projected video features a text read aloud by Helen Brecht, accompanied by various images. The black-and-white images in the background are SEM (Scanning Electron Microscope) images of different objects and materials. War footage, which I have previously used in video works, also appears here as a secondary layer.

By overlaying images of worms, SEM imagery, and war footage, this work seeks to examine resistance strategies of living beings from a different perspective—connecting war technologies, survival struggles, and the shelters of creatures.

“A threadworm commanded its host to act. It called it “host” because it knew nothing beyond the world inside it. The threadworm instructed its host to move toward the nearest water source, and the host obeyed. The host drank the water. The threadworm left its host, but first, it shed its skin. The old skin was thin; the new one would be tougher. Light passes through the sensory organs on the front and back of the worm’s cell membrane, making the worm aware of the light, its sensory organs, and the front and back of its body. It began to curl, eager to coil itself completely. It moved by twisting through the water until another threadworm left its host and entwined itself around it, forming a tangled mass. At that moment, there was no longer a sense of beginning or end—only billions of points of contact between cell membranes. And the host continued to exist—or perhaps it did not.”

Photography: Zeynep Fırat @ Sanatorium